perspicacious

Meaning

Having keen insight and understanding; showing acute mental discernment.

Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Example Sentences

The detective's perspicacious nature helped solve the mystery.

The perspicacious student quickly understood the complex problem.

Synonyms

insightful, perceptive, sharp, shrewd, astute, clever

Entry 1

insightful, perceptive, sharp

Entry 2

insightful, perceptive, shrewd, astute, clever

Antonyms

unobservant, dull, slow-witted, ignorant, slow

Entry 1

unobservant, dull, slow-witted

Entry 2

ignorant, dull, slow

Collocations

perspicacious mind, perspicacious analysis, perspicacious observer, perspicacious comment